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AaronJust saw an article about how people are talking more like ChatGPT.Bananas are cloned. When a pest or fungus evolves a way around the banana's defenses, the entire crop is destroyed due to a lack of variation.We're already well aware of the dangers of monoculture. They have been discussed not just with respect to agriculture but also to *human* diversity as well. In particular, it is well-understood that neurodiversity and cultural diversity strengthen, rather than weaken, the performance of teams.What sorts of vulnerabilities are we creating in our society when so many of us spend time conversing with and learning from a bot that follows the same patterns of speech and "reasoning", with the same assumptions, biases, and failure modes?<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#diversity</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/neurodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#neurodiversity</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/monoculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#monoculture</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/variation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#variation</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#culture</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/bias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bias</a>

-0--1-<a href="https://mastodon.social/@wcooperbooks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@wcooperbooks</a> My hypothesis is that most people alive in the US currently--especially those in the higher socioeconomic classes--have never experience life outside <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheBubbleOfPrivilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheBubbleOfPrivilege</a>. I grew up in abject poverty. Homeless at times. I can see and have experienced <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Variation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Variation</a>. Inside <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheBubbleOfPrivilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheBubbleOfPrivilege</a> it's broadly homogeneous. Moreover, they project what they have been exposed to and beLIEve it will just continue.

Lauren Hall-LewWe're in paperback!!! And we're 20% off!!! 🎉🎉🎉Hall-Lew, Lauren, Emma Moore, & Robert J. Podesva (eds.) 2021. Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation: Theorizing the Third Wave. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/social-meaning-and-linguistic-variation-theorizing-third-wave" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/social-meaning-and-linguistic-variation-theorizing-third-wave</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociolinguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/variation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#variation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/indexicality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indexicality</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a>

CharrveinOne year since we visited <a href="https://drosophila.social/@debivort" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@debivort</a> at <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OEBHarvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OEBHarvard</a>Many thanks for great hospitality, tour of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CapeCod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CapeCod</a> n <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Ptown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ptown</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#evolution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/behavior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#behavior</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/variation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#variation</a> chatsAnd tour of the exibits, inculing this fab old <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SeaUrchinFossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SeaUrchinFossil</a> and the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GlassFlowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GlassFlowers</a>

Lauren Hall-LewThank you Abby Walker for such a great review of our book! "At times I felt like I was sitting in on a conversation between really smart and thoughtful people." Reading your review feels exactly the same way 🥰 <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00754242221146631" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00754242221146631</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociolinguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/social" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#social</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/meaning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meaning</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/linguistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/variation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#variation</a>

DJ Dr. MaitxinhaI love it when people tell me they DO NOT have an accent... <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/dialectology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dialectology</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/variation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#variation</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/linguisticvariation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguisticvariation</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociolinguistics</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/denial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#denial</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/linguisticsmemes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@linguisticsmemes</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/linguistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@linguistics</a>

Pedro Vale<a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#introduction</a> Hi! I'm a lecturer in <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Evolutionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Evolutionary</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ecology</a> at the University of <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Edinburgh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Edinburgh</a>, Scotland. My research uses the fruit fly <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Drosophila" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Drosophila</a> as an established model of <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/infection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#infection</a>, <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/immunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#immunity</a>, and <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/behaviour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#behaviour</a> to investigate the causes of individual <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/variation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#variation</a> in <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/immune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#immune</a> responses, <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/physiological" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#physiological</a> traits and <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/social" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#social</a> behaviours, and the consequences of this variation for <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/pathogen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pathogen</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/transmission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transmission</a> and <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#evolution</a>.

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